Aug 14, 2021
The average enterprise has two to three API management vendors
and plans to adopt more soon. However, 40% of organizations have
three or more API management vendors, and most don't intend to
consolidate to a single vendor throughout the enterprise. Thus,
complexity is growing, but it can be an opportunity.
API Ecosystem complexity, if unmanaged, is slowing down
enterprises. Don't try to simplify your complexity. Master it and
control it, it happens for good reasons, but you will not go fast
if you leave it alone. The task then is to keep, even boost, the
agility that autonomous business units create with their own
particular applications and API ecosystems amid the tech sprawl
that they also perpetuate.
Teams need creativity and flexibility, so it's essential to have a
centralized governance system while at the same time offering
developer teams autonomy so they can work in the languages and
platforms that make sense to them.
Jana Frejova shares how at Axway, they recognize that companies
want the freedom to use different API vendors for different
solutions. Still, they also need the freedom to manage all of those
APIs as they see fit – and to be able to freely access all of their
data without it being locked into silos.